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The war in Iraq has become one of the most controversial wars of modern times, whether in terms of the reasons for starting the war or its course. Due to the extent of American involvement and later complications, the " Vietnam syndrome " began to surface, and the way the United States acted strongly discredited its superpower status in the eyes of the world community.

The war in Iraq has become one of the most controversial wars of modern times, whether in terms of the reasons for starting the war or its course. Due to the extent of American involvement and later complications, the " Vietnam syndrome " began to surface, and the way the United States acted strongly discredited its superpower status in the eyes of the world community.

The work of the George W. Bush administration was radically affected by the events of September 11, 2001, which marked a rather large milestone in the approach to international events. The response to these events was a military attack on Afghanistan, the war on terrorism was defined and the axis of evil was identified as a group of states supporting terrorism and the development of weapons of mass destruction.

The first phase consisted of a military attack by Allied troops, mostly American, to occupy the Iraqi capital and overthrow Saddam Hussein. Using state-of-the-art military technology and the perfect interplay of navy, air force and ground forces, there has been clear success, very rare in military campaigns, considering that Baghdad, Saddam's Stalingrad, fell just twenty-one days after military operations began, even though Iraq had nearly 400,000 troops, equipped with thousands of tanks, armored vehicles and artillery compared to almost half of the Allied army. The whole campaign was surrounded by circumstances that apparently led John Keegan, a military analyst, to label the first chapter of his book on these events as "The Mysterious War ."

Assessing the war in Iraq and the subsequent developments, which are very exceptional in their complexity and specifics, is extremely difficult, all the more so as Iraq's " hot " soil has not yet cooled completely. However, what we can say with certainty now is that the naive ideas of the neoconservatives about the transformation of Iraq, and therefore of the entire Middle East, have certainly not been fulfilled.

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